Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-10-20
HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.
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Don't entice flies into your cook-room
by leaving little milk in one cup and
grease in another between meals. Scald
your tin vessels with lye water. Wash
your tableware in sonpsuds and rinse them
in water slightly blue. Keep handy piece
Of sand-paper to rub your steel knives.
Put your silver spoons, knives, and forks
in white flannel sack containing pow
dered chalk.
Don't mako fire in your back yard
every three months for the purpose of
burning up your old clothes. Tear them
in strips one half inch wide, sew together
firmly and smoothly: wind them into balls.
Have your husband make you two wooden
knitting needles, thirty inches long, cast
on your stitches in the usual manner for
knitting plain cloth, knit back and forth
until you get rug of any desired length.
Spread them around your cook stove.
Take 10 cents and buy you brush for
cleaning the handles of your cups, stands,
etc. Dirt settled around the handles of
tableware looks nasty. Brush back your
hair and see that your collar is properly
adjusted before sitting down to do the
honors of the table. II you don't feel
pleasant see if you can't assume pleas
ant appearance at the table; nothing looks
better.
Don't feed your company on apologies;
give them something more substantial.
Before going out shopping know what you
want and the quality of the same; don't
pull and haul over every piece of goods in
the store. If you are not good Judge of
the article you want, frankly tell your mer-
chant so, and request him to select it for
you. AS rule, all women are not Judges
of shoes and kid gloves. If you can af-
ford but one fine article of clothing let
that be pair of shoes. Don't wear 80
cent collar, 75-cent pair of shoes, and
25-cent pair of gloves with dress that
cost Sl.50 per yard. Let your whole suit
correspond in quality. Don't put $40
bureau in your parlor and have SET of
rawhide-bottom chairs to go with it.
Don't entertain your visitors by lament
ing over your inferior help, or by not hav-
and pay them salary sufficient to keep
them. You had better pay $l2 per month
for good help than $5 for inferior. Don't
hire inferior help if you believe in falling
from grace.
Htnts to House- keepcrs.
IN boiling pudding leave room for it to
swell. If cooked in mould do not fill it
up.
A GLOSSY starch is made by mixing to-
gether quart of starch, a teaspoonful of
salt, and one of white soap scraped fine;
boil after adding hot water until as thick
as you wish.
SATuRATE the edges of carpets with a
strong solution of alum water to DESTROY
moths; if nn unpainted floor, wash the
floor with it before putting down the crr-
pet. Do the same to shelves whore black
ants appear.
OILcLcTH may be improved in appear
ance by rubbing it with mixture of a
half-ounce Of beeswax in saucerful of
turpentine. Set this in warm place until
they can be thoroughly mixed. Apply
with flannel cloth, and then rub with a
dry flannel.
To TAKE varnish off of furniture use a
solution Of about eight pounds of common
| washing soda to gallon of water. Apply
this TO the work with common paint
brush, and after allowing 1t TO stand for a
short time the varnish can be removed
with an ordinary stiff scrubbing brush.
EQUAL parts of strong ammonia water,
ether, and alcohol form valuable clean.
ing compound. Pass piece of blottine
paper under the greasa spot, moisten {
sponge frat with water to render il
/ greedy" then with the mixture, and rul
the spot with it. In moment it is dis.
solved, saponifed, and absorbed by the
sponge and blo.ter,